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This course enhances students' understanding of international dispute settlement and the achievement of global justice. Following a comparison of various methods and means of dispute settlement, the course focuses on the role of international law and international legal proceedings in settling international disputes and promoting global justice. This course looks specifically at important cases at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), and the International Criminal Court (ICC). Students are asked to define and assess the role, potential, and limitations of international law and its institutions in international relations throughout the course. Students present a case study and produce a final paper. 

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. At the end of the course, the student has a clear understanding of the main problems of contemporary epistemology and a detailed knowledge of some of the views that shape current debates on the structure of epistemic justification, the skeptical paradoxes and the interplay between evidential and pragmatic factors in ascriptions of knowledge. The student will have built up an ability to reconstruct and critically evaluate the arguments offered in support of competing epistemological views.

This course introduces three kinds of genealogical arguments – neutral, vindicatory, and debunking – acquiring a clear understanding of the logical structure and epistemic force of each of them. The first series of lectures addresses the 'state of nature' theory by which Edward Craig attempts to illuminate some key concepts and problems of epistemology. The second series of lectures covers Bernard Williams' vindicatory genealogy of the intrinsic value of the virtues associated with truth, namely, sincerity and accuracy. And the third series of lectures tackles the genealogical arguments by which Nietzsche and other philosophers attempt to debunk our moral concepts and beliefs.

This course examines the nature and scope of semantics and pragmatics and their place within linguistics. Topics in semantics include: the nature and analysis of lexical meanings, the relationship between meaning and cognition, the relationship between semantics and grammar, and semantic change. Topics in pragmatics include: speech act theory, politeness theory, implicature and presupposition. 

This course examines myths in relation to culture and surveys representative theories of mythology. Students read classical myths, explore the cultural elements that gave rise to particular myths, and learn to apply this knowledge in an analysis of "modern" myths, beginning with folktales and local legends.   

Topics include What is myth and why is it relevant?, The Dawn, The Olympian Gods, Gods and Human Beings, Death and Rebirth, Demeter, Persephone, Dionysus, Apollo and Artemis, Aphrodite, Myth and History, Heroes and demigods, Theseus and the Minotaur, Herakles, The Trojan War, Justice, vengeance, and punishment, The Tragic House of Atreus, Fate vs. human will, Oedipus, Medieval myths, Faust and Satan, and Folktales. 

This course trains students to put traditional Irish music theory into practice. Students are introduced to a wide range of traditional repertoire, styles and techniques, taught by leading artists in the field. Students then apply these skills to their own performances, compositions or arrangements, which are submitted at the end of the semester. Students work on one major project and one minor project, choosing any two of the following options:

- Performance
- Composition/Arrangement
- Essay

Performance:
Major Performances will be a set of tunes, to be performed and recorded in Weeks 11-12, showcasing a variety of the playing styles studied in class.
Minor Performances will be a single tune or song demonstrating some of the techniques taught in class

Composition/Arrangement
Major Compositions will be an original work or set of tunes, exploring a variety of the instrumental and regional playing styles studied in class. Minor Performances will be a single original tune or song demonstrating some of the techniques taught in class.
Major Arrangements of traditional material will be written for at least 6 of instruments available from among the ensemble. Minor arrangements will be written for at least 2 of instruments available from among the ensemble.

Essay
Major Essays will be 5000 words, researching a topic covered in class (or closely related topics, to be approved by MC).
Minor Essays will be a 1000-word commentary on the student's recording or composition, outlining the styles and techniques demonstrated.

Sustainable marketing involves the creation and delivery of value to customers in ways that honor and improve both environmental and societal wellbeing. Through lectures and case studies, this course covers the principles of sustainable marketing across various industries, such as apparel, food, automotive, and technology, and provides an understanding of the sustainable consumer.  

Students learn to develop sustainable marketing strategies and explore how traditional marketing principles are being reshaped by growing sustainability concerns.  

The course defines sustainable marketing and links it to related business concepts like corporate social responsibility and delves into the "triple bottom line" framework, which encompasses economic performance, environmental impact, and social impact. Utilizing real-world examples, the course examines the buy-one-give-one business model through the lens of Bombas, reviews corporate sustainability strategies, and discusses how Allbirds adapts its approach to maintain competitiveness. The courses also covers the characteristics, psychology, and behaviors of sustainable consumers.  

Students are introduced to the Intention-Behavior gap, which highlights the difference between consumers' sustainable attitudes and their actual behaviors. Through the SHIFT framework, students investigate ways to bridge this gap by addressing key factors such as social influence, habit formation, individual identity, feelings and cognition, and tangibility. Additionally, students analyze sustainable consumer trends, including voluntary simplicity, vintage fashion, and sustainable luxury.  

A detailed examination of Norlha, a luxury yak wool textile enterprise on the Tibetan Plateau, provides a case study in sustainable luxury. 

This class then covers the essential steps for creating a sustainable marketing plan, discussing product development and marketing sustainable innovations, and applying these concepts through the Aleph Farms case.  

Next, students learn how to use life cycle analysis to assess the social and ecological impacts of sustainable products and explore issues related to sustainable supply chain management and the management of re-commerce platforms within the circular economy. Finally, we study how to design effective communication campaigns for sustainability goals, illustrated by the General Motors case on electric vehicles. 

The course introduces the principles of probability and statistics and their applications in engineering. Topics include the relationship between probability and statistics; random variables; probability distributions; mathematical expectation; random sampling; estimation; tests of hypotheses, and regression analysis. 

This course explores Berlin through the lens of émigré and exile literature, examining works by writers who either left Berlin or found refuge within it. Through close readings of texts spanning from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to contemporary works, students analyze how experiences of exile, migration, and displacement shape literary imagination and cultural identity. The course moves through Berlin's key historical moments—from the Russian émigré communities of the 1920s, through the forced exile of Jewish writers, to post-war Turkish-German literature and contemporary refugee narratives. By pairing literary texts with theoretical frameworks and conducting original ethnographic research, students investigate how different waves of migration have transformed both Berlin's physical spaces and its literary landscape. Special attention is paid to how writers represent specific Berlin neighborhoods and how various communities have shaped the city's cultural geography. Through engagement with memoir, fiction, poetry, and first-hand accounts, students explore themes of memory, nostalgia, linguistic displacement, cultural adaptation, and the evolving relationship between place and identity in émigré writing.

This course offers an exploration of the derivation, development and practice of Irish foreign, security and defense policies, with a particular focus on contemporary challenges. Students gain a detailed insight into Ireland's place in the contemporary world order, the transformation of Irish national foreign, security and defense policy through its membership of the European Union and the efforts of Irish policy makers to pursue Irish interests and values within an evolving global order. This includes an analysis of Irish foreign policy strategy, policy making and economic, political and military engagement. This course provides a solid theoretical and empirical grounding for further advanced study, and encourages students to compare and to evaluate critically competing understandings of Ireland in the world. Transferable skills are developed through independent research, teamwork, communications and role play.